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Nine Lives of Neoliberalism A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Plehwe, Dieter (Ed.); Slobodian, Quinn (Ed.); Mirowski, Philip (Ed.) Book — Published Version Nine Lives of Neoliberalism Provided in Cooperation with: WZB Berlin Social Science Center Suggested Citation: Plehwe, Dieter (Ed.); Slobodian, Quinn (Ed.); Mirowski, Philip (Ed.) (2020) : Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, ISBN 978-1-78873-255-0, Verso, London, New York, NY, https://www.versobooks.com/books/3075-nine-lives-of-neoliberalism This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215796 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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Th is work is an open access publication. Th e book and the single chapters are made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 URN:ISBN:978-1-78873-253-6 First published by Verso 2020 Collection © Verso and the editors 2020 Contributions © Th e contributors 2020 Some rights reserved Th e moral rights of the authors have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-253-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-254-3 (UK EBK) ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-255-0 (US EBK) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Plehwe, Dieter, editor. | Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- editor. | Mirowski, Philip, 1951- editor. Title: Nine lives of neoliberalism / edited by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski. Description: Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2019017198| ISBN 9781788732536 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781788732550 (US ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Neoliberalism. | Liberalism. Classifi cation: LCC JC574 .N57 2020 | DDC 320.51/3–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017198 Typeset in Minion by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY 99781788732536781788732536 NineNine LivesLives ofof NeoliberalismNeoliberalism (469j)(469j) - 7th7th pass.inddpass.indd iviv 110/03/20200/03/2020 113:59:533:59:53 Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe 1 Part One neoliberal science beyond market fundamentalism 19 Recoding Liberalism: Philosophy and Sociology of Science against Planning Martin Beddeleem 21 On Skinning a Cat: George Stigler on the Marketplace of Ideas Edward Nik-Khah 46 Th e Law of the Sea of Ignorance: F. A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup, and other Neoliberals Confront the Intellectual Property Problem Quinn Slobodian 70 Part Two neoliberal subjectivity beyond homo economicus 93 Neoliberalism’s Family Values: Welfare, Human Capital, and Kinship Melinda Cooper 95 Schumpeter Revival? How Neoliberals Revised the Image of the Entrepreneur Dieter Plehwe 120 99781788732536781788732536 NineNine LivesLives ofof NeoliberalismNeoliberalism (469j)(469j) - 7th7th pass.inddpass.indd v 110/03/20200/03/2020 113:59:543:59:54 Human Behavior as a Limit to and a Means of State Intervention: Günter Schmölders and Behavioral Economics Rüdiger Graf 143 Part Three neoliberal internationalism beyond the washington consensus 167 Embedded Early Neoliberalism: Transnational Origins of the Agenda of Liberalism Reconsidered Hagen Schulz-Forberg 169 What Comes Aft er Bretton Woods? Neoliberals Debate and Fight for a Future Monetary Order Matthias Schmelzer 197 Th e Neoliberal Ersatz Nobel Prize Philip Mirowski 219 Part Four neoliberal influence beyond reagan, thatcher, and pinochet 255 How the Neoliberal Th ink Tank Went Global: Th e Atlas Network, 1981 to the Present Marie Laure Djelic and Reza Mousavi 257 Th ink Tank Networks of German Neoliberalism: Power Structures in Economics and Economic Policies in Postwar Germany Stephan Pühringer 283 About the Contributors 309 Bibliography 311 99781788732536781788732536 NineNine LivesLives ofof NeoliberalismNeoliberalism (469j)(469j) - 7th7th pass.inddpass.indd vivi 110/03/20200/03/2020 113:59:543:59:54 List of Figures and Tables List of Figures Figure 5.1. Many Hounds Soon Catch the Hare 132 Figure 8.1. Th e Impossible Trilemma and the Th ree Monetary Systems 203 Figure 9.1. Th e Sveriges Riksbank Prize Medal 228 Figure 9.2. Francis Amasa Walker Medal 250 Figure 10.1. Number of Th ink Tanks Added to/Dropped from the Atlas Network 260 Figure 10.2. Global Reach of the Atlas Network in 2015 261 Figure 10.3. North America (reaching a net of 69 in 1995 and 170 in 2015) 262 Figure 10.4. Latin America (reaching a total of 25 in 1995 and 73 in 2015) 263 Figure 10.5. Asia and Pacifi c (reaching a net of 5 in 1995 and 55 in 2015) 264 Figure 10.6. Europe (reaching a net of 21 in 1995 and 130 in 2015) 265 Figure 10.7. Africa and Middle East (reaching a net of 2 in 1995 and 31 in the second period) 266 Figure 11.1. Walter Eucken as Academic Teacher 292 Figure 11.2. Continuity of German Neoliberal Networks aft er World War II 294 Figure 11.3. Th e Academic Roots of the Proponents of the Monetarist Turn in Germany 296 99781788732536781788732536 NineNine LivesLives ofof NeoliberalismNeoliberalism (469j)(469j) - 7th7th pass.inddpass.indd viivii 110/03/20200/03/2020 113:59:543:59:54 Figure 11.4. Economists in German Neoliberal Networks During the Monetarist Turn in Germany 297 Figure 11.5. Kronberger Kreis as the Central Node in German Neoliberal Networks of Economists 302 Figure 11.6. Economists with a High Media Coeffi cient in Th ink Tank Networks 303 Figure 11.7. Economists with a High Economic Policy Advice Coeffi cient in Th ink Tank Networks 304 Figure 11.8. Infl uential German Economists in Th ink Tank Networks 305 List of Tables Table 9.1. Neoliberal Winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics 241 Table 9.2. Walker Medal Awards 251 Table 10.1. Atlas International Workshops, 1981–1995 267 Table 10.2. Atlas Grants in Recent Years 273 Table 10.3. Fisher Memorial Award Competition, 1990–1995 277 Table 10.4. ALA Training and Graduates 280 Table 11.1. Performative Footprint of Members of the Kronberger Kreis (Percentages Shown) 301 Table 11.2. Classifi cation Scheme for the Operationalization of Political Coeffi cients of the PFP 307 99781788732536781788732536 NineNine LivesLives ofof NeoliberalismNeoliberalism (469j)(469j) - 7th7th pass.inddpass.indd viiiviii 110/03/20200/03/2020 113:59:543:59:54 Acknowledgments In March 2016, a group of thirty scholars from around the world convened at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center to discuss “more roads” to and from Mont Pèlerin. All the chapters in this volume were presented and discussed at the conference and benefi ted from seventy- two hours of intense debate. Th e four organizers of the conference (Philip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe, Hagen Schulz-Forberg, and Quinn Slobodian) and the authors of the present volume are indebted to the other participants: Ola Innset, Jacob Jensen, Niklas Olsen, Tiago Mata, Elisabeth Winter, Fabio Masini, Andrea Franc, Merijn Oudenampsen, Bram Mellink, Karin Fischer, Lars Mjoset, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Isabella Weber, Aditya Balasubramanian, Joshua Rahtz, Holger Straßheim, and Vineet Th akur. Th e conference was generously funded by Schulz- Forberg’s Velux “Good Society” Project at Aarhus University and the WZB Research Unit on Inequality and Social Policy, which was headed by Felix Elwert at the time. Our thanks are due to the WZB team of Stefanie Roth, Marion Obermaier, and Moritz Neujeff ski. Th e conference was the third international conference on the topic of neoliberalism focusing on organized neoliberal networks. Th e previous conference at NYU led to the publication of Th e Road from Mont Pèlerin: Th e Making of the Neoliberal Th ought Collective, which has sparked an ongoing international debate and a wide range of research on the intel- lectual and social history of neoliberalism.
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